canst

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kænst/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ænst

Verb

canst

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of can
    Canst thou show me the way?
    • 1849, Matthew Arnold, In Harmony with Nature:
      Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends;
      Nature and man can never be fast friends.
      Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!

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